SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 16 out, this is Chapter 17 of this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors (myself included) sustain on readers' reviews.

Disclaimers: I own nothing, except for the plot bunny. Heck, even the pairings aren't mine.

Chapter 17: Conclusion! Aizen Sealed!

Minutes later, Aizen sat up, the Kyūjūrokkei Kakafūmetsu Kido seal activated in response to the loss of the Hōgyoku, bursts of red Reiatsu piercing through his bared chest. "What is this?" the weakened traitor gaped. "Is this Kido? When could it have..."

"Seems like it's finally activated." Urahara stated.

"Urahara Kisuke, is this your doing?" Aizen demanded.

"Yes," Urahara admitted. "I concealed this Kido within another one and implanted it in your body before your transformation was completed when you were the most vulnerable. It's a sealing technique I determined that if you fused with the Hōgyoku, killing you would become almost impossible. So I developed a new Kido designed specifically to seal you."

"Is that so?" Aizen mocked. "Then I will have to disappoint you. Do you truly believe that such a pitiful Kido has the power to seal me? What is this?" he was shocked when his vaulted armor shattered.

"The reason that the Kido I implanted in you has finally triggered is that you have become weak." Urahara explained. "Thanks to Lady Frost summoning the Grim Reaper; it could trigger because she destroyed the Hōgyoku."

"This is ridiculous!" Aizen snapped. "It could never happen. It could never..." his back arched as red energy crucifixes sprouted from his back. "Urahara..." he hissed, as the sealing Kido started to wrap around him from feet-up. "Urahara Kisuke! I despise you. Why, when you possess such intellect, do you not act? How can you stand to submit to that thing?"

"That thing?" Urahara echoed. "So, Tula-sama is right, you have seen the Reiō. If the Reiō does not exist, Soul Society would be divided. The Reiō is its linchpin. If the linchpin is lost, everything will soon collapse. That is the way of our world."

"That is a loser's reasoning!" Aizen argued. "A winner has to speak not of the world as it is, but of the world as it should be. I will..." he was cut off when the seal completed its job, finally sealing him in an odd, three-bladed structure.

Omake: Shinigami Illustrated Picture Book

Kon: (Lying on the streets of the reversed Karakura Town as the rest of Squad 12 peer curiously at him)

Purple-haired Squad 12 member: Hey, young man. You should get up. You'll catch a cold if you lie on the ground like that. We're angels from the Bureau of Research and Development, and we...

Kon: (Focused on the woman's half-concealed breasts and shoots up) Oh, I'm up! Mysterious lady with gorgeous huge boobs, I'm coming!

Purple-haired Squad 12 member: Take that! (Smacks Kon with a tentacle emerging from her breasts) And that! (Pins Kon to the ground with a tentacle) Gotcha.

Kon: I've been caught through the trickery of the Bureau of Research and Development what on earth is going to happen to me?

'Not to be continued' sign appears at the corner of the screen.

Kon: (Shocked exclaim)

SailorStar9: In the next and final chapter of this arc, Hitsugaya takes leave from the Seireitei to visit Haru, a friend of his in the Real World. Haru is a lonely old woman who can see spirits because of which people find her strange and do not go near her. Before seeing her, he gets Karin involved in his visit. They both go to Haru's house and meet the spirit of a shy child named Yosuke. However, Hitsugaya hesitates from sending Yosuke to the Soul Society after hearing that he and his parents died in an accident on the way to a skiing trip, and that he wishes to see snow for the first time before resting in peace. Afterwards, Hitsugaya stays over at Karin's house, where he gets teased as Karin's boyfriend by the Kurosaki family. Later, it is revealed that Haru had been controlling Yosuke's transformation into a hollow with her own spiritual energy, and when she weakened, he went out of control. Haru, who is being held in Yosuke's hand, restrains him with her spiritual energy, giving Hitsugaya enough time to give the finishing blow. When the fight ends, it begins to snow in Karakura Town which allows Yosuke to leave happily. Karin says goodbye to Hitsugaya, who decides to visit his real grandmother in the Rukongai later.

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